Torah Vocab

Books of the Old Testament, based on God giving Moses the tablets with the 10 commandments

• Patriarch

• Passover

• Law of Moses

• Yahweh

Based on Greek word meaning five books that begin the Sacred Scriptures.

• Pentateuch

• Babylonian Exlile

• Patriarch

• Theophany

The night the angel of death spared the first born son of all Israelites because of the blood of the lamb smeared on their door.

• Diaspora

• Passover

• Tribes of Israel

• Law of Moses

A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made.

• Theophany

• Israel

• Pentateuch

• Covenant

the movement or scattering of a people away from their established ancestral homeland

• Israel

• Passover

• Law of Moses

• Diaspora

12 divisions, originating with Jacob's 12 sons

• Tribes of Israel

• Law of Moses

• Pentateuch

• Yahweh

the father or leader of a tribe, clan; examples being Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

• Passover

• Patriarch

• Yahweh

• Israel

the name that comes from Jacob's experience in "wrestling with God".

• Tribes of Israel

• Babylonian Exile

• Theophany

• Israel

God's manifestation of himself in a visible form to enrich human understanding of Him

• Theophany

• Law of Moses

• Diaspora

• Patriarch

The most sacred of the Old Testament names for God, translated to "I AM"

• Tribes of Israel

• Law of Moses

• Yahweh

• Israel